Cardano-node over HTTP? Or as stack/cabal dependency?

Question

Is there a way to include cardano-node as a dependency in my project? (Stack dependency or cabal dependency). I tried and it keeps failing because not all dependencies can be built. Maybe I need to include it as a Nix dependency, using a Nix project?

I am trying to write code that can make use of some features of cardano-cli and cardano-node without having to be using files.

Alternatively, is there a web wrapper around cardano-node? (That would allow me to create transactions, submit, query utxos, etc..)

Answer 1

I use cabal exclusively. You can include cardano-node as a dependency in the top level cabal.project file using something like what db-sync does. This may require that you add some of the other source-repository-package s that db-sync uses.

Alternatively, is there a web wrapper around cardano-node? (That would allow me to create transactions, submit, query utxos, etc..)

That sounds like part of the feature set of cardano-db-sync and the rest seems to be cardano-tx-submit-api.